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by hernan7 18y ago
Wasn't that what the 37signals guys were advocating? http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1256-making-money-twice
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by hernan7 18y ago
An oldie but goodie. But, hasn't this been posted to HN before in some other format? That "heaviness of being successful" line reminded me of "Annie Hall". "Did you achieve total heaviosity?"
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by hernan7 18y ago
"How long does it take to learn Squeak, I mean to really learn effectively?" 5 years. Full time. At MIT. In 1983.
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by hernan7 18y ago
No path to citizenship? Not interested, sorry.
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by hernan7 18y ago
I had a push mower (made in USA, BTW) some 4 years ago. Like the mower in TFA, it came with the type of handle that comes in n parts that you need to bolt together. It worked for a month or so, then the handle fell apart. Bought a gas-power
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by hernan7 18y ago
He is right about playing guitar. Tone is in the fingers -- alas.
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by hernan7 18y ago
I don't think "normal people" are as anti-Apple as this post makes them to be. Also, "normal people" are certainly much less tech-phobic than they were, say, 15 years ago.
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by hernan7 18y ago
If you document you need to keep the comments in sync with the code. If you write self-documenting code, you need to keep the function names in sync with the code. You just can't win...
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Linux: the fallacy of choice(linuxhaters.blogspot.com)
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by hernan7 18y ago
I used to read Dostoevsky when I was younger; tried to re-read C&P recently and couldn't stand it. Too painful. So the moral would be: read Dostoevsky while you still have the intestinal fortitude of youth.
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by hernan7 18y ago
Agreed. BTW, multiple desktops were around since before Linux. Unix workstations had them since the late '80s or so.
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by hernan7 18y ago
"edit: he doesn't seem to know that macs have a command line" Yes, I found that bizarre. That, and the part where he writes that Ubuntu "does everything that Windows does".
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by hernan7 18y ago
I haven't given Emacs a fair shake yet, but it's definitely in my to-do list. Maybe with Viper to mitigate the shock...
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by hernan7 18y ago
Do you... erm... Yahoo!? And, of course: I'm Feeling Lucky!
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by hernan7 18y ago
Yes it is, with a dash of ADO/ COM/ ASP/ OLE. I used to lurk in there for some time, and the forum seemed to be populated mostly by one-man micro-ISV's trying to sell shrink-wrapped Windows software packages.
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by hernan7 18y ago
Maybe you could submit that to Snopes. I was another believer in the "no Internet in The Road Ahead" urban legend.
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by hernan7 18y ago
Maybe they think Inc and Joel On Software have mostly non-overlapping readerships?
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by hernan7 18y ago
Now I'm going to have that TMBG song stuck on my head for the rest of the day, thanks.
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by hernan7 18y ago
Well, Popular Mechanics was technically right. I am writing this on a computer that weighs no more than 1.5 tons. Quite a bit less in fact.
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by hernan7 18y ago
Also, for the few of us that might want to remix a track, a limit of 6 tracks is grossly inadequate.
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by hernan7 18y ago
And cookies! If you want to know what pain is, you should try managing cookies by hand.
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by hernan7 18y ago
More like a reprise of the biplane (BMW started as an aircraft engine maker way back in the day). Did anybody else think of Porco Rosso when seeing this car?
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by hernan7 18y ago
The example website is a site that basically replaces a paper-based flyer, so having it be one page is OK. I would have worked more or less the same as a 2- or 3-page site I think. With only one page you don't have the lag associated with p
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by hernan7 18y ago
I guess you could get a transparent keyboard-shaped overlay for when you need tactile feedback.
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by hernan7 18y ago
Does anybody still care about the editor wars? Personally, I use vi, but would like to also learn Emacs at some point. I don't see why you can't use both (there is this "Viper" vi emulation for Emacs, but last time I tried it, it was a litt
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by hernan7 18y ago
Mr Former Editor, I knew Google. Google was a friend of mine. Mr Former Editor, you're no Google.
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by hernan7 18y ago
You would need more than 10 years for that...
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by hernan7 18y ago
Maybe ESR was making numbers out of thin air?
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by hernan7 18y ago
Yeah, please add that "what music do you program to" question to the FAQ if you're so kind.
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by hernan7 18y ago
The "E-commerce" entry left me flabbergasted. Do some developers really think that people want to drag-and-drop stuff into their shopping carts? Maybe I am too used to sensible on-line shops...

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